From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29281 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2017 22:23:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Seq: 23037 Received: (qmail 8669 invoked by uid 1010); 30 Dec 2017 22:23:46 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mail.epopia.com by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(137.74.101.162):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 8.710141 secs); 30 Dec 2017 22:23:46 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: psychoslave@culture-libre.org X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Subject: Re: Can zsh `else` reserved keyword command be aliased and the lexem itself be repurposed as `fi` keyword command? To: Ray Andrews , zsh-users@zsh.org References: <71ef7896-39f8-66fe-f8f8-c7c81b11e2ce@culture-libre.org> <918acbfa-b637-1d13-816b-c6edee0afa5c@culture-libre.org> <81beaeae-6507-c961-b6fd-5831ba58e045@eastlink.ca> <049465fb-b49d-9984-73ce-fd5672bec01a@eastlink.ca> From: mathieu stumpf guntz Message-ID: <5c2a86f8-d5b3-474b-8aac-3751968a1120@culture-libre.org> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 23:23:30 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <049465fb-b49d-9984-73ce-fd5672bec01a@eastlink.ca> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------6570F610D6CAE92312CBE696" Content-Language: en-US --------------6570F610D6CAE92312CBE696 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Le 30/12/2017 à 18:16, Ray Andrews a écrit : > > When you put it that way, yes, the horror diminishes ... just so long > as no anarchist tries to redefine 'alias' or some such thing. There > HAS to be something who's meaning is not negotiable. > >   #define define "undefine" >   #define undefine "define" >   alias alias="this must surely be forbidden" There are only a few things that must be intepreted in a clearly defined consensual way for a very limited and well specified context. By the way, "alias" in Esperanto means "is other than" and as such would certainly make a great keyword for the inequality operator. :) > > I dunno, maybe there are reasons to want to fiddle with reserved words > but it seems blasphemous to me.  Never mind. Uttering some blasphemes might be a strong motivational per se. :) But to give a broader context this is in fact investigated as part of this wikiversity research project about internationalisation of programming languages: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Internationalisation_of_Programming_Languages --------------6570F610D6CAE92312CBE696--